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  • Online Courses @ Stanford

    Online Courses @ Stanford

    Great News: More free online courses coming early next year from Stanford University. Some of us have already benefited from the currently running Machine Learning, Intro to Artificial Intelligence, or Intro to Databases classes, I myself am taking the AI and Machine Learning courses and am seeing a whole new way to learn. Here are the new classes…

  • Find that Character – Shapecatcher.com [Webapp]

    Find that Character – Shapecatcher.com [Webapp]

    When was the last time you spent almost an hour fiddling through the list of unicode characters list to find that one greek/latin character that you needed to put in your report. Shapcatcher.com – A website that lets you draw a character, then tries to recognize it and gives you a list of possible suspects.…

  • NeverWet Spray is Superhydrophobic

    NeverWet Spray is Superhydrophobic

    Superhydrophobic: Repelling water to the degree that droplets do not flatten but roll off instead. Only a few surfaces exhibit the hydrophobic let alone superhydrophobic phenomenon but the people at Ross Nanotechnologies have come up with a spray-on-can of superhydrophobic goodness. Here is a video that explains and demonstrates what the new spray can do: With…

  • IEEE Xtreme 5.0 – [Thankyou Post]

    IEEE Xtreme 5.0 – [Thankyou Post]

    Whole Post in 1-Line: IEEE Xtreme makes me a better programmer PERIOD. I have been a student member of IEEE for about 2 years now and for these 2 years I tried to participate in as many IEEE related activities as I could the best thing that happened participating in IEEE Xtreme competitions. IEEE Xtreme is…

  • Weighting the Internet [Video]

    Weighting the Internet [Video]

    So with all the rage of keeping your weight in check, here is a video showing what the whole of Internet weights. Information does have its own burden, even if it is to the atomic size. Source: vsause